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GRM 181.3 · Volume 3
The good God gives you the Word. The enemy is vigilant to make it harmful, because the flour of wheat if mixed with the flour of darnel makes a bitter bread, which is harmful to the stomach. If there is darnel in your souls, pick it with goodwill and throw it away, so that you may not be unworthy of God.
GRM 181.4 · Volume 3
The demon really perverts the nature of man making him a creature of his own and then sows it to lead astray other people whom he has not been able to enslave otherwise.
GRM 181.4 · Volume 3
No corruption will enter Heaven.
GRM 181.5 · Volume 3
Does goodness not disarm wickedness? Does it not make ill-will harmless? No, it does not, because the man who has fallen prey to the Enemy is indifferent to what is superior. And what is superior changes apperance, as far as he is concerned. Kindness becomes weakness on which it is lawful to tread and it stimulates his ill-will as the scent of blood stimulates a beast to slaughter.
GRM 181.7 · Volume 3
If there is Good there is also Evil and man is gifted with discernment and freedom.
GRM 182.4 · Volume 3
Do you know the Law well enough and its ten commandments? And you, too, boy? In that case you know enough. If you faithfully practise what God commanded, you will be holy.
GRM 182.4 · Volume 3
Do not complain of being far from the world. That will preserve you from much corruption. And God is not far from you, but closer in that solitude, where you can hear His voice in the winds, which He created, in the herbs and in the water, whereas you would not hear it among men.
GRM 182.4 · Volume 3
Keep wolves away from your hearts. Wicked men are wolves: they seduce you and incite you to evil actions by Satan’s order and it is Satan himself who induces you to sin so that he may tear you to pieces. Be watchful.
GRM 182.5 · Volume 3
The presence of a child amongst you should influence every action of yours through the holy restraint of respect for a child.
GRM 182.5 · Volume 3
This boy is the neighbour entrusted to you by God in a special manner. Teach him to be good, a faithful believer, honest and free from vices.